Installing applications - long pause

[Guest]

Since building my new Vista Ultimate PC, I have found that installing
applications is consistently very slow. What seems to happen is that I'll get
to the screen with the installation progress bar, and the bar will not
advance for a long time - sometimes several tens of minutes. Then, the
installation will suddenly "wake up" and proceed to its normal conclusion.

I have wondered whether this is related to the seemingly well known problem
in copying files being slow (while Vista calculate how long it is going to
take to do the copy!), but I really don't know. Any ideas, anyone?

 

[Spirit]

Check for updated drivers and particularly Drive Controllers for
motherboard, hard disk drivers and utilities from hard disk maker.

 

[Guest]

Thaks. I just checked, and all my mobo drivers are up to date. The HDD maker
(Hitachi) doesn't seem to offer any utils or drivers.